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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami
| image = File:Tarigami269.jpg
| caption = M. Y. Tarigami
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|07|17|df=y}}{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
| birth_place = Tarigam, Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir
| residence = [[Kulgam]]
| office1 = [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of [[Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly]] <br/> for [[Kulgam]]
| constituency1 = [[Kulgam]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu & Kashmir]]
| term_start1 = 1996
| term_end1 = 2018

| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| region =
| website = http://massstruggle.com/
| footnotes =
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| source =
}}
'''Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami''' is an Indian politician and the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] state committee former secretary. He represented the [[Kulgam]] constituency in the [[Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly]].<ref>http://newshopper.sulekha.com/topic/communist-party-of-India/news/cpi-m-s-tarigami-wins-again.htm{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He won the seat for the Kulgam constituency in 1996, 2002, 2008 and 2014.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.elections.in/jammu-and-kashmir/assembly-constituencies/kulgam.html | title=Leading/Winning Candidate in Kulgam assembly constituency | access-date=23 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/tariq-hameed-karra-should-have-raised-kashmir-issue-in-parliament-cpim-leader-mohammad-yousuf-tarigami-3054742/|title=Tariq Hameed Karra should have raised Kashmir issue in Parliament: CPI(M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami|date=28 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://dailykashmirimages.com/Details/122080/tarigami-flays-govt-for-%E2%80%98unconcern-on-separatists-detentions}}|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kashmiris-are-dying-a-slow-death-says-cpim-leader-tarigami/article29439533.ece?homepage=true |title=Kashmiris are dying a slow death, says CPI(M) leader Tarigami |last= K. Nair |first= Sobhana |date=17 September 2019 |work=The Hindu |access-date=17 September 2019}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Tarigami was born in 1949. His family name, comes from his village – Tarigam, that lies near National Highway 44 to Jammu.

== Political life ==
He was shaped as a communist under the influence of Abdul Kabir Wani of chawalgam.

In 1967, he was imprisoned for taking up the cause of farmers against the forcible procurement of rice. He went again imprisoned in 1975. While he was in prison, his wife died. The government released him on parole for a month but rearrested him after three days. In 1979, he was the first person to be booked under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act of 1978. He has been imprisoned in various jails like the Sub-Jail Reasi, the very dangerous torture centres of Red-16 and Papa II. In 2005, militants entered the heavily guarded Tulsibagh colony in Srinagar and attacked the homes of Tarigami and the Minister for Education Ghulam Nabi Lone. Lone was killed. (In 2015, ten years after Ghulam Nabi Lone's death, there was another minister in Kashmir with the same name belonging to People's Democratic Party PDP)<ref>https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-journalist-beating-agriculture-minister-ghulam-nabi-lone-willing-for-apology-after-uproar-2098259</ref> In the attack in 2005, Tarigami's guards fought off the attackers, although one of his guards was killed.<ref name="News">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newsclick.in/yusuf-tarigami-kashmir-communist-CPIM |title=Yusuf Tarigami - Kashmir’s Communist |last=Prasad |first=Vijay |date=16 Sep 2019 |work=Newsclick |access-date=16 Sep 2019}}</ref>

On 24 October 2020 he was elected as the convenor of the [[People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/farooq-abdullah-named-chairman-of-peoples-alliance-for-gupkar-declaration-mehbooba-mufti-to-be-deputy/article32936487.ece |title=Farooq Abdullah to lead Gupkar alliance |agency=[[Press Trust of India|PTI]] |date=24 October 2020 |work=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref>

=== People representative ===
Tarigami won the seat for the Kulgam constituency in 1996, 2002, 2008 and 2014. He had a very tough fight in Assembly elections during 2008 & 2014 with his close rival Nazir Ahmad Laway of JKPDP.

==References==
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[[Category:Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from Jammu and Kashmir]]
[[Category:Members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Jammu and Kashmir MLAs 2014–2018]]
[[Category:People from Kulgam district]]
[[Category:1947 births]]

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